The device file system, or
,
provides access to kernel's device
namespace in the global file system namespace.
The conventional mount point is
/dev
The file system includes several directories, links, symbolic links
and devices, some of which can also be written.
In a chroot'ed
environment,
can be used to create a new
/dev
mount point.
The
mknod(8)
tool can be used to recover deleted device entries under
.
